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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Casting, Rumors, Pics till release)

I thought the trailer looked outstanding. It's elevated the movie from fourth to my most anticipated film of the year. I'm really psyched for this. The music I believe from the trailer is composed by Henry Jackson who co-composed the music for "Kick-Ass" I'm not sure where it's from or if it's an original piece. Jackson Archer would know more about that.
 
I thought it was insane when everybody was analyzing the trailer, but MTV has Fassbender commentating it too? Awesome!

So quickly this is getting crazy! Sweet!

Oh, the linky

http://www.michael-fassbender-online.net/

They put the commentary trailer on their front page along with his talking about Prometheus.
 
MTV had Favs commenting on the "Cowboys and Aliens" trailer from a couple months ago as well. This seems to be a new media thing. I like it. Fassbender is absolutely going to steal this movie.
 
While I'm on a Fassbender kick for sure, but I also don't wonder if his apparent predominance in this film is from the remnants of the Origins: Magneto that was supposedly absorbed into First Class? I do agree he has seemingly taken over American geekdom overnight. That's a good thing. :)

Anyone else been back to the Facebook page. What is this X-Men app they are talking about releasing, when something is shared enough or it hits 2 mil or something? I think its kind of weird that they've taken their marketing totally viral, but eh, waht do I know? ;0)
 
Yes the bulk of Erik's story was taken from the abandoned Origins:Magneto film and incorporated into Singer's treatment. It's a little weird but this is what studios have been doing more and more now. Pretty much since Blair Witch Project's website started the trend back in 1999. The speculation on that site's forums is really what fueled the film.
 
I must say, I really don't get this whole cherry-picking mix-and-match approach they've taken in all the X-Men movies. They've mixed up the ages and relationships to the point where the characters aren't even recognizable.
The idea that Kitty and Bobby Drake are the same age is creepy.
 
Characters' ages relative to each other are, for the most part, not especially important in the X-Men; same with who joined when. The "Original Five", for instance, have never as a group had any real special status to later incarnations of the team.
 
I'm looking forward to "X-Men: First Class" action figures if there are any, and still am waiting for novelization news.
 
They do have some figures from the first class comics coming out, but that appears to be it.


For the most part, the X-men movie figures have been fairly mediocre or extremely hard to find IMO.
 
Yeah I saw those. The Jean and Scott two-packs, along with Logan and Sabertooth. They're separate from the movie. I have been wondering if they would have First Classs movie toys but it doesn't look like it. We would have seen them already with the rest of the film toys.
 
A beaker full of death said:
I must say, I really don't get this whole cherry-picking mix-and-match approach they've taken in all the X-Men movies. They've mixed up the ages and relationships to the point where the characters aren't even recognizable.
The idea that Kitty and Bobby Drake are the same age is creepy.
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It's kind of necessary, though. Otherwise you wouldn't get to popular characters like Wolverine, Storm, or Rogue until the sixth movie.

Let's not forget. The original X-MEN comics, featuring the "real" first class, never sold well. The series didn't really become popular until they introduced the new team around issue #94!
 
It's funny though how fans including myself thought this would be an origin movie featuring the original X-Men. Wasn't the original run of "X-Men" even canceled at one point and they just had reissues for a while until "Uncanny" came around?
 
Yes. I think that issue 58 was the final "regular" issue and it then went into repeats until it was revived with issue 94.
 
Admiral_Young said:
It's funny though how fans including myself thought this would be an origin movie featuring the original X-Men.
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Well, that's understandable, since it's named after a comic book that is about the original 5 members. Like many movie projects do in the development process, it ended up evolving into something very different from its initial inspiration; yet it kept the same title, which could lead to confusion.
 
However, several of the members of this team do have their origins in the older comics: Havok, Beast, Banshee, and of course Xavier and Magneto were introduced prior to the all-new, all-different team.
 
I'm amazed that with such a convoluted comic book universe, people can be super nitpicky about how the movies do their thing. Although some of the movie decisions certainly have not been perfect, indeed!

So far I am taking First Class like the Highlander franchise. Accept The Series even if it is alternative to the original, but then disown The Quickening and 3. Accept The Renegade verison and disown The Source, but Accept that Endgame some how brings the pieces together nice enough for a good fan romp.

If First Class does breed a new trilogy, I'd like them to somehow reasonably tie it up to the beginning of the first film. Unless there is something glaring, big whoop. Not every single film or television version of Superman has to match each other. Smallville and Lois and Clark are totally in the same universe as George Reeve? Come on.

I'm not surprised if they are planning to make Havock Cyclops' dad. I suspect that when they said they were still related. What amazes me more is fanboys are talking about the 'epic submarine lift' more than the 3 half naked chicks.

How many days to this purported full length trailer? :)
 
KB24 said:
What amazes me more is fanboys are talking about the 'epic submarine lift' more than the 3 half naked chicks.
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< :whistle:

Trailers with half-naked chicks are a dime a dozen. Magneto lifted a friggin' submarine out of the water from inside an enlarged and VTOL modified SR-71 (just like their SR-77 Blackbird in the comics) during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That gave me nerd wood.

Anyway, that trailer was perfection. The music, the action, the setting; just fantastic. I was cautiously optimistic before but now this is my most anticipated movie of the summer. If the film can live up to the coolness of that trailer, it's going to be epic, and the continuity changes to either the other films or the comics will mean little to me.
 
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